{"id":37407,"date":"2014-07-11T06:36:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37407"},"modified":"2021-05-03T19:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T00:17:25","slug":"my-former-dining-room-is-now-the-art-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-former-dining-room-is-now-the-art-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"My former dining room is now the art studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to turn my former dining room into the art studio so I can keep my reading room intact.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday I\u00a0collected all my art supplies and put them in the center of the living room to see exactly what I had.\u00a0 There were drafting tables, oil paints, acrylics, brushes, palettes, knives, watercolors, watercolor paper, sketchbooks, canvas and stretcher sticks, desk easels, standing easels, pochade boxes, pencils, erasers, pastels soft, hard and oil<\/a>, solvents.\u00a0 I thought if I had enough to take over a room, it made sense to have a dedicated paint studio. If I leave up paintings in progress, I’m more likely to take a few moments and work on them. Otherwise years can go by with them untouched because they’re packed neatly away in the closet.\u00a0 As I meditated on the idea of room placement, I reasoned that the dining area is the best place in the house to be.\u00a0 It’s near the sink and water, it’s got the best indoor and outdoor lighting, it’s in the middle of the action, so the chi is constantly flowing.<\/p>\n

I knew I’d need several table surfaces and I’d need drawers or storage space so the supplies didn’t get out of hand.\u00a0 I moved all my teas and vitamins to inside the cabinet, and moved the convection oven onto a narrow table.\u00a0 I placed two tables side by side next to it.\u00a0 That gave me plenty of surface space, plus storage underneath. I moved in a bar stool and straightbacked chair. I set up 4 different size easels.\u00a0 I spread out my supplies in genres: current sketch books here, all the watercolors here, the acrylics here, the oils and pastels don’t need to stay out. I set up my brushes and applauded my brush cleaning discipline.<\/p>\n

I took the opportunity to clean the floors, so everything looks and smells and feels new again.\u00a0 I’ve never had the art studio in the dining room, so that’s very exciting.\u00a0 When I get into painting mode, it makes me begin to look at objects differently, to take note of how the light plays on it, how many colors are really involved in that dab of “white.”\u00a0 One main thing painting does for me is it trains my eye to peel away a layer of the mundane world to reveal the enchantment underneath.\u00a0 When that happens, I can be in bliss painting the half eaten acorn or, for that matter, simply contemplating the half eaten acorn.<\/p>\n

RELATED: \u00a0Update from the art studio<\/a>
\nThe new art studio is coming together<\/a>
\nThere\u2019s the painting on canvas and there\u2019s the Photoshopped digital version<\/a>
\nI begin painting from out of body, astral flight sketches<\/a>
\nPainting is a daily meditation for me<\/a>
\nPainting as a method of altering consciousness<\/a>
\nDoing a series of paintings as a form of shamanic soul retrieval<\/a>
\n<\/a>Painting is a daily meditation for me<\/a>
\nPainting as a method of altering consciousness<\/a>
\nIntroducing Junelle, with open hands to take your pain away<\/a>
\nIntroducing Moon Gal with Raven<\/a>
\nIntroducing Rosa of the Aqua Eye<\/a>
\nEvolution of Ganesh with Bass<\/a>
\nEvolution of Pele<\/a><\/p>\n

Meditation links\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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